RELEASE DATE 8 February 2007
TITLE TECHNOLOGY COLLEGE FORGES LINKS FOR THE FUTURE WITH TOYOTA ACADEMY
 

Students from Farnborough School Technology College in Clifton near Nottingham got a personal tour of the Toyota Academy at Nottingham Trent University last week as a result of their hard work with Toyota's Schools for Sustainable Development Programme.

Over the last few months, pupils have worked with regeneration charity, Groundwork Greater Nottingham to come up with proposals for improvements to their local shopping area on Varney Road. The visit allowed them to present their ideas for new trees, seating and artwork, to Toyota’s Gary Harlock, director of the Academy.

The students were then given a tour of the state of the art training facilities available on the site. They sat behind the wheel of the prototype of the new Lexus hybrid car, looked in on training sessions in marketing and PR as well as touring the workshops where new engines are put together.

Teacher at Farnborough School Technology College, Juliet Quinten was delighted with the visit. She commented, "It's great to have the opportunity to make links between students and local businesses. We hope that this visit will be the start of long relationship with the Academy. We have already discussed plans for year 11 students to take part in one of Toyota’s school enterprise schemes in the coming year."

Toyota's Schools for Sustainable Development Programme is a programme which is run by Toyota companies across Europe. Angela Ganss, Landscape Architect at Groundwork Greater Nottingham said, "Toyota's aim of this programme is to promote and support activities that contribute to improving the local environment." She continued, "This is not the first project in Clifton to benefit from this programme. Highbank Primary School recently obtained support for an outdoor performance area where pupils can stage plays and enjoy other performing arts activities."

For more information, please contact Angela Ganss on 0115 9788212.

Click here for more information about Toyota's Schools for Sustainable Development Programme.
 
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Please note that all our projects involve people and communities and many have to be seen to be believed. They each have very different real life stories of transformation, they are very photogenic, and in order to continually improve our communities, we will be delighted to share more of these with you, including fielding interviews and making visits available to you

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

GGN has been established for 14 years

In a typical year we Groundwork Greater Nottingham works with communities to:-
· Develop and deliver at least 100 new projects
· Deliver over 4000 person days of youth activity
· Engage with over 200 local businesses
· Work in partnership with at least 80 schools
· Deliver 40 locally significant environmental improvement schemes
· Deliver 2 regionally significant conferences a year

We are currently working on 55 live projects

Nationally, Groundwork is one of the UK’s leading social and environmental partnership organisation’s, working with people, local authorities and businesses to promote economic and social regeneration by improving the local environment. Through it’s network of around 50 Independent Trust’s around the UK, from Tyneside to South Wales, Northern Ireland to Hackney, Groundwork uses the environment to improve their quality of life. Groundwork is an independent charity, which involves 60,000 adult volunteers and over 120,000 school children each year in local environmental projects. From small community schemes to major regional and national programmes, Groundwork’s local Trust’s work in partnership with local people, local authorities and businesses to promote sustainable developments in their local area.

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